[Opinion: India is on the defensive in its neighborhood] In Pokhara, a tourist hotspot in central Nepal, China is helping build a new airport, a huge development for the small landlocked country of 29 million. Ministerial visits between Kathmandu and ...

Mayors of three tourism destinations unveil plan for tourism developmentRepublicaKATHMANDU, Dec 14: Mayors of three major tourist destinations of the country have unveiled their plans and strategies for development promotion of tourism in their respective areas. Speaking at the Golden Jubilee Valedictory Ceremony of Nepal ...

News Nepal » Tourism: Meet Nepal’s man in Tibet, building bridges on the roof of the world

Nepal and China finalised a 1.5 billion yuan (US$226 million) deal in May to build a new international airport at Nepal’s main tourist town of Pokhara, about 200km west of Kathmandu. Export-Import Bank of China will grant soft loans which Karkee said ...

The decision was taken as the area falls along the Kailash Mansarovar route and the government wanted to promote tourism and provide livelihood opportunities to locals residing in the town that shares international border with Nepal. (HT FILE ...

News Nepal » Tourism: Community forestry pays off for Nepal - Forests News, Center for International Forestry Research (blog)

Community forestry pays off for NepalForests News, Center for International Forestry Research (blog)Nepal - Around the Chitwan National Park in Southern Nepal, forests are supporting the emergence of a host of sustainable local businesses. Growing businesses in tourism, all-natural products and timber sales are popping up across the forest landscape ...

Guwahati has advantage of language over other parts of India as well as adjacency with the growing market of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and some part of Nepal. Its weather along with tourism helped the region to become an important medical tourism ...

RepublicaNMA celebrates International Mountain DayRepublicaKATHMANDU, Dec 13: Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) has marked International Mountain Day by organizing the 4th Mountain Festival 2017 at International Mountain Museum in Pokhara. The NMA in coordination with Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and ...

News Nepal » Tourism: Undercutting, the tourism industry’s bane

Although the Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB ... has not only done undercutting but also sent his lowest quotation to almost all the agents in India, Nepal and abroad in his official letterhead,” the post claimed. A tour operator, on the condition ...

Finally, something not about electionsNepali timesAfter detailed DNA analysis of the genome sequence of the femur, underarm hair and toe-nails from Yeti body parts from monasteries in the Himalaya they found the tissue samples belonged to three species of bears and a Tibetan mastiff, but not the Yeti ...

Nepal, Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, USA, UK, Vietnam, Turkey, South Korea. Besides the foreign delegates, 50 domestic stakeholders in Tourism sector from other parts of the country and 103 sellers from the North ...

... Darjeeling hills in West Bengal is banking upon the prevailing upward swing in the foreign tourist arrival (FTA) to India as well as adjoining Nepal. Though no concrete figure or statistics could be collated yet, Darjeeling and its adjoining region is ...

News Nepal » Tourism: A paradigm shift - The Kathmandu Post

The Kathmandu PostA paradigm shiftThe Kathmandu PostBut the question remains, do we settle for what we have or do we tackle the pressing issues so that the tourism industry could bloom like never before? Once in a while, our netajis impart their two cents on transforming our country into something like ...

Himalayan TimesDouble amputees to be barred from climbing mountainsHimalayan TimesA revision to the Mountaineering Expedition Regulation under the Tourism Act, which has already been forwarded by the ministry to the Council of Ministers, also states that people with complete blindness and double amputation, as well as those proven ...